| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: "But it is not done," replied Fouquet.
"Oh, do not flatter yourself, monseigneur; if they have thus
lulled your friendship and suspicions -- if things have gone
so far, you will be able to undo nothing."
"But I have not given my sanction."
"M. de Lyonne has ratified for you."
"I will go to the Louvre."
"Oh, no, you will not."
"Would you advise such baseness?" cried Fouquet, "would you
advise me to abandon my friends? would you advise me, whilst
able to fight, to throw the arms I hold in my hand to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: built of solid snow, from their waists up, the Matterhorn
stands black and naked and forbidding, the year round,
or merely powdered or streaked with white in places,
for its sides are so steep that the snow cannot stay there.
Its strange form, its august isolation, and its majestic
unkinship with its own kind, make it--so to speak--the Napoleon
of the mountain world. "Grand, gloomy, and peculiar,"
is a phrase which fits it as aptly as it fitted the great
captain.
Think of a monument a mile high, standing on a pedestal
two miles high! This is what the Matterhorn is--a monument.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: between us and others. We are all the time grasping things
from other people, and, if not in words, are mentally boasting
ourselves against others, trying to think of our own superiority
to the rest of the people around us. Sometimes we try to run
our neighbors down a little, just to show that they are not
quite equal to our level. We try to snatch from others some
things which belong to them, or take credit to ourselves for
things to which we are not fairly entitled. But all the time we
are acting so it is perfectly obvious that we are weaving veils
between ourselves and others. You cannot have dealings with
another person in a purely truthful way, and be continually
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